Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
Quotations
Silence
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
Silence is the goal of all answers. If an answer does not silence the mind, it is no answer.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Smiling with all the existence is Silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
